See this post on my blog: Full Moon Breathwork Ritual for Release & Renewal
There’s a special kind of magic in a Full Moon breathwork ritual.
When the Moon reaches her peak, energy rises, emotions stir, and ancient wisdom calls us to pause, reflect, and breathe deeply.
For centuries, people have honoured the Full Moon as a time of illumination, release, and renewal.
But in the busyness of modern life, many of us have lost touch with these natural rhythms.
Breathwork offers a beautiful, simple way to reconnect — to tune into the cycles of nature and the cycles within ourselves.
Why Align Breathwork with the Full Moon?
The Full Moon represents a peak of energy, emotional intensity, and inner clarity.
It’s often a time when things come to the surface — insights, realisations, or feelings that have been quietly building. When we consciously engage with this energy, it can become a powerful turning point.
Practising a Full Moon breathwork ritual allows us to:
Heighten self-awareness
Release emotional or energetic buildup
Set powerful intentions for what we’re ready to let go of
Realign with our deeper truth
As women in midlife, we often carry layers of unspoken emotion — grief, identity shifts, old roles dissolving. A Full Moon breathwork ritual gives us space to exhale those burdens and reclaim our truth. Each breath becomes a soft rebellion against hustle culture, and a return to our inner knowing.
A Full Moon Breathwork Ritual for Release and Renewal
To begin, create a small sacred space. You might like to light a candle, sit by a window where you can see the Moon, or simply close your eyes and imagine her silver light shining down on you.
The Release Breath Practice:
Inhale deeply through the nose for a count of 4
Hold the breath lightly for 2 counts (if that feels safe and comfortable)
Exhale slowly through the mouth for a count of 6 to 8, imagining you’re releasing what no longer serves you
Repeat for 5–10 rounds, letting your body soften more with each breath out
If the counts feel too long, simply make the exhale longer than the inhale. This is where the release happens.
As you exhale, you might gently whisper:
I release what no longer serves me.
Living in Rhythm with the Moon
Bringing breathwork rituals into your Full Moon practice helps you live more cyclically — moving with nature’s tides rather than resisting them.
Each Full Moon becomes a chance to breathe more deeply, love more fiercely, and soften the weight you’ve been carrying.
If this way of living speaks to you, you might also enjoy my post on Seasonal Breathwork: Aligning Your Energy with the Wheel of the Year — a guide to working with breath through the eight sacred festivals of the Pagan calendar.
Whether you breathe by candlelight or simply gaze up at the sky, your Full Moon breathwork ritual becomes a sacred moment of reconnection. A reminder that you, too, are cyclical — ever-changing, ever-beautiful, a being of both light and shadow.
Reflect and Integrate
You might like to end your ritual with a short journaling practice. Here are some prompts to guide you:
What emotional weight am I ready to release tonight?
What truth within me is ready to be seen and honoured?
Let your breath guide you as you write, without judgement or expectation.
Women and the 28-Day Cycle
It’s no accident that the average menstrual cycle follows a similar rhythm to the Moon — both lasting around 28 to 29 days. For centuries, women have felt this connection deeply, often noticing that their energy, moods, and intuition rise and fall with the lunar phases.
Even beyond our bleeding years, many of us still feel those subtle shifts. Perhaps you sleep lightly during the Full Moon, feel more emotional than usual, or find your dreams more vivid. These aren’t just old wives’ tales — science is beginning to catch up with what women have long known.
One study in Science Advances found that for some women, menstrual cycles do occasionally sync with the Moon’s phases — particularly those cycles lasting over 27 days.
Read the study here
Another piece of research in Frontiers in Public Health linked the lunar cycle to sleep quality, showing that women whose periods began during the darkest part of the Moon often reported poorer sleep afterwards.
See the study here
So if you feel a bit off around the Full Moon — more wired, more weepy, or just more aware — you’re not imagining it.
Working with a Full Moon breathwork ritual helps you honour those natural rhythms, rather than pushing through them. It’s a gentle reminder that you are nature — not separate from her, but dancing right alongside her, one breath at a time.
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